Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power
Wed, May 13, 2026
6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Skylight Room (9100), CUNY Graduate Center. Free and open to the public. Register to attend.
Join us for a reading and conversation featuring writers from this groundbreaking collection, Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power (Duke University Press), which is the first comprehensive volume to explore the impact of empire on Afghanistan’s past and present. It features cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan and paths to decolonial futures. With a particular focus on the US intervention that began in 2001, the collection marks a decolonial turn in Afghanistan and American studies.
Participants
Zohra Saed
Lost & Found Faculty Editor
Zohra Saed is the co-editor of One Story, Thirty Stories: An Anthology of Contemporary Afghan American Literature (University of Arkansas Press) and editor of Langston Hughes: Poems, Photos and Notebook from Turkestan (Lost & Found, The CUNY Poetics Documents Initiative). She is a Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College and Lost & Found Faculty Editor and Mentor at the CUNY Graduate Center.
This event is hosted and organized by the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.
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